"Dear friends! Know that the Pope loves you." That is how Pope Benedict XVI greeted the 250 people assisted in Rome's seven houses of the Missionaries of Charity, at the end of Christmas dinner offered on Sunday, Dec. 26 in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. "Charity is the true force that changes the world," he said to the most needy and to the religious who celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the birth of their founder, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. After sitting at a table with 14 guests of the homes and the superior general of the Missionaries, Sister Mary Prema Pierick, the Pope said that "the Child that we see in the grotto is God himself" that has become one of us to get close t ...